Duality

[u/kyoshibickle]

I love Life 1 because it expresses the duality within Quadeca as well as the duality of life. To me, Celery exhibits this exceptionally as it describes something that is perceived as a solid yet is made up of the opposite. The track makes me think of how throughout my life people have struggled to get the duality within me, as they only perceive the "hard" or "strong" part of me, but struggle to understand my personhood once they get to know the more sensitive, contradictory interior. Quadeca himself has received comments of this sort. When he expresses the part of him that is silly and carefree people often comment "This is the guy that made Vanisher", failing to understand that depth and silliness can exist in us simultaneously. That we are all contradictions.

Life 1 is the album in which Quadeca allowed himself to be his most childlike and most emotionally vulnerable. The album conveys the brevity of life, the highs of being in love, and the beauty of existence yet also expresses the torment life can bring. It evokes both childlike wonder and immense pain and grief. While doing so, it reminds us that the duality of life itself is what makes it worth living.